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New Book by the Author of "Economics for Irishmen." THE SORROWS OF IRELAND. By "PAT." Cr. 8vo, Paper cover, 1s. net. A limited number of copies in Cloth, 2s. net. Chapters on:--The Irish Problem and How I Studied it--Derivation of the Problem--Education--The Leagues--Sinn Fein--Politics--Religion, &c., &c. "No more moving book than this has been written on Ireland for a century past."--_Publisher and Bookseller_. THE NEW IRELAND. SYDNEY BROOKS. Cr. 8vo. Paper cover, 1s. net. Cloth, 1s. 6d. net. Sinn Fein and the New Nationalism--The Gaelic League--The I.A.O.S. and The Industrial Revival--The Politicians--The Church--The Agrarian and some other Problems--Devolution. "I have nothing but praise for Mr. Sydney Brooks book on _The New Ireland_.... A masterpiece of clear statement and comprehension ... he is always brilliant, thoughtful, and persuasive. Everybody, both in England and Ireland, ought to read this book."--R.W.L. (_Black and White_). WHAT IS THE USE OF REVIVING IRISH? A Review of the Language Movement. By DERMOT CHENEVIX TRENCH. 3d. net. CLERICALISED EDUCATION IN IRELAND. A Plea for Popular Control. By J.H.D. MILLER. 4d. net. BY J.M. SYNGE. THE ARAN ISLANDS. By J.M. SYNGE. Large Paper Edition, with Twelve Drawings by JACK B. YEATS, coloured by hand. Cr. 4to. Hand-made paper, limited to 150 copies. 21s. net. Ordinary Edition, Demy 8vo., antique paper (with the Drawings in Black and White), 5s. net. This book records the experience of several lengthy visits paid by the author to Inishmaan and Aranmor, the chief islands of the Aran group. He gives an intimate account of the general manner of life on these islands, so isolated from civilisation, where the life is in some ways the most primitive that is left in Western Europe. * * * * * Worth any hundred ordinary travel books. It is full of strange suggestions to the eye and to the imagination. It is continuously interesting.--R. Lynd (_Sunday Sun_). No reader can put the book down without the feeling that he, too, has actually been present upon those lonely Atlantic rocks, cried over by the gulls, among the passionate, strange people whose ways are described here, with so tender a charity.--_Daily News_. Nothing written by the author of "The Playboy of the Western Worl
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